Our Privacy Policy
The Rock Island County Illinois Genealogical Society is very sensitive to concerns about how personal information is used and shared. The following describes the society’s privacy policy. By visiting ricigs.org, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy notice.
The Rock Island County Illinois Genealogical Society uses the information that you provide on our website for such purposes as responding to your requests, joining our society, and communicating with you. We employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf such as processing credit card payments. They have access to personal information such as your address and phone number, which is needed to perform their functions, but they may not use either for other purposes.
The society receives and stores certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies” to personalize and improve your interactions on ricigs.org. We save your IP address for purposes of verifying your logged in status. We use Google Analytics to help us determine the overall audience usage of our website, in order to improve, add, delete, or move web pages within the website. We do not provide any of this information to third parties for any reason.
You have access to your personal information that is stored on our secure website. Once logged into the home page, click on “Profile.” You can see and/or edit the personal information found on your personal Profile page. We do not sell your personal data nor do we share this information with anyone whether they are members or non-members.
We do not have an automatic renewal of your membership and do not hold your credit card number on our website any longer than it takes to process your charge. Your password is encrypted and we do not have access to your password. You may change your password by logging in and clicking on “Profile.”
Periodically we will send you an email via our mass email service, Google Mail, for the purpose of keeping you informed of updates, important events, educational opportunities, closures or weather-related issues. You may remove your name from our email list at any time by sending a request to info@ricigs.org.
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
We may change this Privacy Policy at our discretion at any time. If making substantial changes, we will post a notice of the change on our website.
Reviewed and approved by the Rock Island County Illinois Genealogy Society, March 2022.